Funerals for some of the scores of victims of a series of bombings in Pakistan will take place today as the death toll rose to 120.

A suicide bomber struck a mosque in a Pakistani tribal region during Friday prayers, killing at least 40 people and wounding 85 others.

At least 15 people have been killed when a bomb exploded in a mosque in a Pakistani tribal region as hundreds were gathered for Friday prayers.

Gunmen wearing military uniforms have pulled seven people from a Sunni mosque south of Baghdad and then shot and killed them, execution-style.

A bomb targeting worshippers attending Friday prayers at a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad has killed 16 people and wounded dozens more, the top medical official in the province said.

Twelve people were killed when a bomb exploded at a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad, officials have said.

A suicide bomber struck a mosque in north-west Pakistan during prayers today, causing the roof to collapse and killing at least 50 people.

Gunmen opened fire on worshippers inside a mosque in eastern Pakistan today, killing two people, police said.

A Sunni mosque was levelled by an explosion today in Basra, police and witnesses said – the second such attack in as many days, in apparent retaliation for the toppling of minarets at a prized Shiite shrine in Samarra.

During tonight’s rush hour, a car bomb killed seven people and wounded 25 others near a Sunni mosque in northern Baghdad.

A bomb planted between a Sunni mosque and a youth centre exploded during prayers, killing four people and wounding another nine, police said.

A bomb struck a Sunni mosque in Baghdad after prayers today, killing seven people and wounding five, while mortars barraged a Shiite mosque north of the capital, leaving five wounded.

A bomb struck a Sunni mosque in a town north-east of Baghdad, killing 10 worshippers and wounding 15 in the same town where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in Iraq earlier this month.

Four people were killed and 15 wounded when gunmen stormed a Sunni mosque near Tikrit today, Iraqi police said.

Dealing with a civil war in Iraq would be the responsibility of Iraq’s own security forces, at least initially, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress yesterday.

Gunmen stormed a Sunni mosque in west Baghdad early today, killing three people in a 25-minute gun battle, police said. Seven others were wounded.

Sunnis and Shiites have traded bombings and mortar fire against mainly religious targets in Baghdad, killing at least 68 people after authorities lifted a curfew that had briefly calmed a series of sectarian reprisal attacks.

Eight people were killed as they prayed when three gunmen opened fire in a Pakistani mosque.